06/13/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"I would think, General Dempsey, it has been pointed out here that we have spent multiple years, 10 years plus, a trillion dollars, lost a lot of lives in Iraq, and we had 100,000 troops there at one t..."
"Why hasn't the YPG [People's Protection Units] or the Syrian Kurds been involved in these talks?"
"the administration's requirement that this new Syrian force could only fight ISIL, not the Assad regime, which has killed far more Syrians than ISIL"
"Putin has deployed strike aircraft, T-90 tanks, Howitzers, armored personnel carriers, Russian marines, and housing for up to 1,500 personnel in military bases in western Syria."